MBA Intern Summer 2027 (Mission Lead - Clearance Required)

About the role

Vannevar Labs is seeking Mission Lead Interns for summer 2027. Mission Leads are customer-facing owners of mission outcomes. You will lead engagements with government stakeholders to identify high-value mission problems, shape pilots and deployments, and turn demonstrated mission value into durable, funded programs. This role blends mission credibility with strong execution and technical intuition. You will operate with high autonomy in ambiguous environments, translate mission needs into clear technical narratives, and coordinate across functional teams (Product, Engineering, Mission, Security, and Operations) to deliver and scale.

Responsibilities

• Embed with users.
• Sit on site with DOW customer groups and build deep intuition for their mission.
• Build trust.
• Earn credibility by understanding user problems and helping solve them over time.
• Turn ambiguity into hypotheses.
• Break complex mission problems into specific workflows that can be tested.
• Configure product workflows.
• Set up high-value workflows for users through creative, iterative configuration.
• Test and troubleshoot releases.
• Debug product issues on deployed DOW systems and work with engineering to resolve them.
• Generate mission wins.
• Identify what works, onboard users, and translate wins into evidence of impact.
• Develop new user groups.
• Build relationships with additional teams on site and identify where Vannevar can create value.
• Operate independently.
• Set priorities on site and push work through without waiting for perfect direction.
• Represent Vannevar.
• Be the face of